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Drug Facts

  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • 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.
  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.

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