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Drug Facts

  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • 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.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Every day, we have over 8,100 NEW drug users in America. That's 3.1 million new users every year.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.

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