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Drug Facts

  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • 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.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • Marijuana can stay in a person's system for 3-5 days, however, if you are a heavy user, it can be detected up to 30 days.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • There is holistic rehab, or natural, as opposed to traditional programs which may use drugs to treat addiction.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2

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