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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • 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.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.

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