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Drug Facts

  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • 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.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • The most prominent drugs being abused in Alabama and requiring rehabilitation were Marijuana, Alcohol and Cocaine in 2006 5,927 people were admitted for Marijuana, 3,446 for Alcohol and an additional 2,557 admissions for Cocaine and Crack.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Barbiturates Caused the death of many celebrities such as Jimi Hendrix and Marilyn Monroe
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.

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