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Drug Facts

  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Prescription drug spending increased 9.0% to $324.6 billion in 2015, slower than the 12.4% growth in 2014.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.

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