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Drug Facts

  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Alcohol Abuse is the 3rd leading cause of preventable deaths in the U.S with over 88,000 cases of Alcohol related deaths.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.

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