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Drug Facts

  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Mixing Adderall with Alcohol increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • In 2005, 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. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.

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