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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Inhalants are a form of drug use that is entirely too easy to get and more lethal than kids comprehend.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • 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.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.

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