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Drug Facts

  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • In 2005, 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. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Codeine taken with alcohol can cause mental clouding, reduced coordination and slow breathing.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.

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