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Drug Facts

  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • The most prominent drugs being abused in Alabama and requiring rehabilitation were Marijuana, Alcohol and Cocaine in 2006 5,927 people were admitted for Marijuana, 3,446 for Alcohol and an additional 2,557 admissions for Cocaine and Crack.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • The Barbituric acid compound was made from malonic apple acid and animal urea.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to dehydrate.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.

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