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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • 5,477 individuals were found guilty of crack cocaine-related crimes. More than 95% of these offenders had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.

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