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Drug Facts

  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports 85 percent of inmates arrive at the state prison with a history of substance abuse.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • Nearly one third of mushroom users reported heightened levels of anxiety.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.

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