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Drug Facts

  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.

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