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Drug Facts

  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • 1.3% of high school seniors have tired bath salts.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • In 2009, a Wisconsin man sleepwalked outside and froze to death after taking Ambien.
  • 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

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