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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.

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