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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • 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).
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.

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