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Drug Facts

  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • 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.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.

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