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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Aerosols are a form of inhalants that include vegetable oil, hair spray, deodorant and spray paint.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • 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.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Crack Cocaine is the riskiest form of a Cocaine substance.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • 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.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.

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