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Drug Facts

  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • From 1920- 1933, the illegal trade of Alcohol was a booming industry in the U.S., causing higher rates of crime than before.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.

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