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Drug Facts

  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • 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.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Adderall is popular on college campuses, with black markets popping up to supply the demand of students.

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