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Drug Facts

  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • 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.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • 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.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.

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