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Drug Facts

  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.

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