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Drug Facts

  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Marijuana is actually dangerous, impacting the mind by causing memory loss and reducing ability.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.

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