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Drug Facts

  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Family intervention has been found to be upwards of ninety percent successful and professionally conducted interventions have a success rate of near 98 percent.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Those who complete prison-based treatment and continue with treatment in the community have the best outcomes.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • About 1 in 4 college students report academic consequences from drinking, including missing class, falling behind in class, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.30
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.

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