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Drug Facts

  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • In 2014, over 913,000 people were reported to be addicted to cocaine.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • 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.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • The U.S. utilizes over 65% of the world's supply of Dilaudid.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.

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