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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine can cause cardiac damage, elevates heart rate and blood pressure, and can cause a variety of cardiovascular problems, including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Emergency room admissions due to Subutex abuse has risen by over 200% in just three years.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium

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