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Drug Facts

  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • 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
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.

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