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Drug Facts

  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • 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.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.

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