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Drug Facts

  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Over 30 Million people have admitted to abusing a cannabis-based product within the last year.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • 55% of all inhalant-related deaths are nearly instantaneous, known as 'Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome.'
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • 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.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.

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