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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants 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).
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • Crack comes in solid blocks or crystals varying in color from yellow to pale rose or white.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • 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.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.

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