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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Steroid use can lead to clogs in the blood vessels, which can then lead to strokes and heart disease.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • Authority receive over 10,500 reports of clonazepam abuse every year, and the rate is increasing.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • 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illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Crack Cocaine is categorized next to PCP and Meth as an illegal Schedule II drug.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • 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.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.

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