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Drug Facts

  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Family intervention has been found to be upwards of ninety percent successful and professionally conducted interventions have a success rate of near 98 percent.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 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.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.

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