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Drug Facts

  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • 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.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • 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.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • The duration of cocaine's effects depends on the route of administration.
  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.

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