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Drug Facts

  • Statistics say that prohibition made Alcohol abuse worse, with more people drinking more than ever.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • 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
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.

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