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Drug Facts

  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2

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