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Drug Facts

  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • 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.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Family intervention has been found to be upwards of ninety percent successful and professionally conducted interventions have a success rate of near 98 percent.
  • 33.1 percent of 15-year-olds report that they have had at least 1 drink in their lives.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.

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