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Drug Facts

  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • Getting blackout drunk doesn't actually make you forget: the brain temporarily loses the ability to make memories.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.

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