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Drug Facts

  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • 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.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Crystal meth is short for crystal methamphetamine.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.

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