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Drug Facts

  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • 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.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Authority receive over 10,500 reports of clonazepam abuse every year, and the rate is increasing.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.

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