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Drug Facts

  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • 26.9 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Over 53 Million Opiate-based prescriptions are filled each year.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.

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