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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.
  • Over 13 million individuals abuse stimulants like Dexedrine.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.

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