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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Almost 38 million people have admitted to have used cocaine in their lifetime.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.

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