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Drug Facts

  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • 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
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • LSD (or its full name: lysergic acid diethylamide) is a potent hallucinogen that dramatically alters your thoughts and your perception of reality.
  • Alcohol-Impaired-Driving Fatality: A fatality in a crash involving a driver or motorcycle rider (operator) with a BAC of 0.08 g/dL or greater.
  • Rohypnol has no odor or taste so it can be put into someone's drink without being detected, which has lead to it being called the "Date Rape Drug".

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