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Drug Facts

  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • 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.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

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