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Drug Facts

  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.

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