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Drug Facts

  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • 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.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • 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
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.

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