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Drug Facts

  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • 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.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.

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