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Drug Facts

  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 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.
  • GHB is often referred to as Liquid Ecstasy, Easy Lay, Liquid X and Goop
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.

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