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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • 55% of all inhalant-related deaths are nearly instantaneous, known as 'Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome.'
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • Statistics say that prohibition made Alcohol abuse worse, with more people drinking more than ever.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines,2 marijuana and heroin.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.

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