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Drug Facts

  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Almost 38 million people have admitted to have used cocaine in their lifetime.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.

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