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Drug Facts

  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • 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.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.

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