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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • 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.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • In 2010, U.S. Poison Control Centers received 304 calls regarding Bath Salts.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • 26.9 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.

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