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Drug Facts

  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • In 2014, over 354,000 U.S. citizens were daily users of Crack.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • 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.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • 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.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.

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