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Drug Facts

  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • 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.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.

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