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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Millions of dollars per month are spent trafficking illegal drugs.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • 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.

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