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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.

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