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Drug Facts

  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Cocaine has long been used for its ability to boost energy, relieve fatigue and lessen hunger.

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