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Drug Facts

  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • In 2010, 42,274 emergency rooms visits were due to Ambien.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • 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.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.

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