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Drug Facts

  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • In Alabama during the year 2006 a total of 20,340 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.

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