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Drug Facts

  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.

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