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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • High dosages of ketamine can lead to the feeling of an out of body experience or even death.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine in their lifetime.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.

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