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Drug Facts

  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other 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
  • Marijuana is actually dangerous, impacting the mind by causing memory loss and reducing ability.
  • Many people wrongly imprisoned under conspiracy laws are women who did nothing more than pick up a phone and take a message for their spouse, boyfriend, child or neighbor.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.

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