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Drug Facts

  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • 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.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)

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