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Drug Facts

  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • 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).
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.

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