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Drug Facts

  • Even if you smoke just a few cigarettes a week, you can get addicted to nicotine in a few weeks or even days. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely you are to become addicted.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Cocaine comes in two forms. One is a powder and the other is a rock. The rock form of cocaine is referred to as crack cocaine.
  • 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.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Crystal meth comes in clear chunky crystals resembling ice and is most commonly smoked.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.

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