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Drug Facts

  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • Over 53 Million Opiate-based prescriptions are filled each year.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Studies show that 11 percent of male high schoolers have reported using Steroids at least once.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.

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