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Drug Facts

  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 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.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine, which normally comes in a powder form.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine. If you're a teenager, your risk is especially high.
  • In addition, users may have cracked teeth due to extreme jaw-clenching during a Crystral Meth high.

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