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Drug Facts

  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.

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