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Drug Facts

  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.

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