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Drug Facts

  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Penalties for possession, delivery and manufacturing of Ecstasy can include jail sentences of four years to life, and fines from $250,000 to $4 million, depending on the amount of the drug you have in your possession.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Studies show that 11 percent of male high schoolers have reported using Steroids at least once.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • In 2007 The California Department of Toxic Substance Control was responsible for clandestine meth lab cleanup costs in Butte County totaling $26,876.00.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • In 2012, over 16 million adults were prescribed Adderall.

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