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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.

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