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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 coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines,2 marijuana and heroin.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Authority obtains over 10,500 accounts of clonazepam abuse annually.

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