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Drug Facts

  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • 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.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.

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