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Drug Facts

  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Some common names for anabolic steroids are Gear, Juice, Roids, and Stackers.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports 85 percent of inmates arrive at the state prison with a history of substance abuse.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.

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