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Drug Facts

  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • There are approximately 5,000 LSD-related emergency room visits per year.
  • 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
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.

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