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Drug Facts

  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • There are approximately 5,000 LSD-related emergency room visits per year.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

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