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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.

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