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Drug Facts

  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • 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.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.

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