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Drug Facts

  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Crack Cocaine is the riskiest form of a Cocaine substance.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Subutex use has increased by over 66% within just two years.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.

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