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Drug Facts

  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Crack Cocaine is categorized next to PCP and Meth as an illegal Schedule II drug.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.

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