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Drug Facts

  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.

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