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Drug Facts

  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Ativan is one of the strongest Benzodiazepines on the market.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • Ecstasy is one of the most popular drugs among youth today.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.

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