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Drug Facts

  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.

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