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Drug Facts

  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.

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