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Drug Facts

  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • 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
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • 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.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.

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