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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Ecstasy comes in a tablet form and is usually swallowed. The pills come in different colours and sizes and are often imprinted with a picture or symbol1. It can also come as capsules, powder or crystal/rock.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • The U.S. utilizes over 65% of the world's supply of Dilaudid.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP.

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