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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.
  • 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.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.

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