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Drug Facts

  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • 55% of all inhalant-related deaths are nearly instantaneous, known as 'Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome.'
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • Its rock form is far more addictive and potent than its powder form.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Bath Salt use has been linked to violent behavior, however not all stories are violent.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • 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.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.

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