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Drug Facts

  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • There is holistic rehab, or natural, as opposed to traditional programs which may use drugs to treat addiction.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.

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