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Drug Facts

  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.

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