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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.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.

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