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Drug Facts

  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Over 750,000 people have used LSD within the past year.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • 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.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports 85 percent of inmates arrive at the state prison with a history of substance abuse.
  • The U.N. suspects that over 9 million people actively use ecstasy worldwide.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • In 2009, a Wisconsin man sleepwalked outside and froze to death after taking Ambien.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.

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