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Drug Facts

  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Millions of dollars per month are spent trafficking illegal drugs.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Over 30 million people abuse Crystal Meth worldwide.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.

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