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Drug Facts

  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.

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