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Drug Facts

  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • 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.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Every day, we have over 8,100 NEW drug users in America. That's 3.1 million new users every year.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.

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