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Drug Facts

  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • From 1920- 1933, the illegal trade of Alcohol was a booming industry in the U.S., causing higher rates of crime than before.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine, which normally comes in a powder form.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Codeine taken with alcohol can cause mental clouding, reduced coordination and slow breathing.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • 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.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.

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