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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 35,000,000 Americans a year have been admitted into the hospital due abusing medications like Darvocet.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.

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