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Drug Facts

  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Codeine taken with alcohol can cause mental clouding, reduced coordination and slow breathing.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • 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.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • K2 and Spice are synthetic marijuana compounds, also known as cannabinoids.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.

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