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Drug Facts

  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • In 2014, there were over 39,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths in the United States
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • 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.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.

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