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Drug Facts

  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Because of the tweaker's unpredictability, there have been reports that they can react violently, which can lead to involvement in domestic disputes, spur-of-the-moment crimes, or motor vehicle accidents.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine in their lifetime.
  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine. If you're a teenager, your risk is especially high.
  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine use can cause the placenta to separate from the uterus, causing internal bleeding.
  • Stimulants can increase energy and enhance self esteem.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.

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