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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • 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.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Penalties for possession, delivery and manufacturing of Ecstasy can include jail sentences of four years to life, and fines from $250,000 to $4 million, depending on the amount of the drug you have in your possession.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • Authority receive over 10,500 reports of clonazepam abuse every year, and the rate is increasing.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.

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