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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • 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.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • 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.

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