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Drug Facts

  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Women in bars can suffer from sexually aggressive acts if they are drinking heavily.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • 55% of all inhalant-related deaths are nearly instantaneous, known as 'Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome.'
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.

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