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Drug Facts

  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • 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.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • 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.
  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.

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