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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants can increase energy and enhance self esteem.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • The Barbituric acid compound was made from malonic apple acid and animal urea.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • 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.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.

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