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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.

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