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Drug Facts

  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Nearly one third of mushroom users reported heightened levels of anxiety.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.

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