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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • 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.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • 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.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.

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