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Drug Facts

  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • 8.6% of 12th graders have used hallucinogens 4% report on using LSD specifically.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.

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