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Drug Facts

  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine in their lifetime.

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