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Drug Facts

  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Cocaine comes in two forms. One is a powder and the other is a rock. The rock form of cocaine is referred to as crack cocaine.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.
  • 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
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.

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