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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Ketamine hydrochloride, or 'K,' is a powerful anesthetic designed for use during operations and medical procedures.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.

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