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Drug Facts

  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Texas is one of the hardest states on drug offenses.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.

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