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Drug Facts

  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • 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
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.

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