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Drug Facts

  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.

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