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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Those who complete prison-based treatment and continue with treatment in the community have the best outcomes.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.

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