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Drug Facts

  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Bath Salt use has been linked to violent behavior, however not all stories are violent.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • 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.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • 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.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • From 1920- 1933, the illegal trade of Alcohol was a booming industry in the U.S., causing higher rates of crime than before.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.

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