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Drug Facts

  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • 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.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Over 23.5 million people are in need of treatment for illegal drugs like Flakka.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • 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.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.

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