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Drug Facts

  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Illegal drug use is declining while prescription drug abuse is rising thanks to online pharmacies and illegal selling.
  • Using Crack Cocaine, even once, can result in life altering addiction.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • 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.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.

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