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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine has long been used for its ability to boost energy, relieve fatigue and lessen hunger.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Cocaine comes in two forms. One is a powder and the other is a rock. The rock form of cocaine is referred to as crack cocaine.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.

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