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Drug Facts

  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.

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