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Drug Facts

  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.

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