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Drug Facts

  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Crack Cocaine is the riskiest form of a Cocaine substance.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • 28% of teens know at least 1 person who has tried ecstasy.
  • 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.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • 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.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.

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