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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • In 2014, over 913,000 people were reported to be addicted to cocaine.
  • 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.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • 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.

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