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Drug Facts

  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Family intervention has been found to be upwards of ninety percent successful and professionally conducted interventions have a success rate of near 98 percent.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Steroid use can lead to clogs in the blood vessels, which can then lead to strokes and heart disease.

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