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Drug Facts

  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • After hitting the market, Ativan was used to treat insomnia, vertigo, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • 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illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.

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