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Drug Facts

  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Oxycodone comes in a number of forms including capsules, tablets, liquid and suppositories. It also comes in a variety of strengths.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • In 2012, over 16 million adults were prescribed Adderall.
  • The U.S. poisoned industrial Alcohols made in the country, killing a whopping 10,000 people in the process.

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