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Drug Facts

  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • 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.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • 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.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.

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