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Drug Facts

  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that more than 9.5% of youths aged 12 to 17 in the US were current illegal drug users.
  • 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.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • In Utah, more than 95,000 adults and youths need substance-abuse treatment services, according to the Utah Division of Substance and Mental Health 2007 annual report.
  • Teens who consistently learn about the risks of drugs from their parents are up to 50% less likely to use drugs than those who don't.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.

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