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Drug Facts

  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.

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