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Drug Facts

  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.

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