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Drug Facts

  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • GHB is a popular drug at teen parties and "raves".
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • 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.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • In 1860, the United States was home to 1,138 Alcohol distilleries that produced over 88 million gallons each year.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.

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