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Drug Facts

  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.

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