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Drug Facts

  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Dual Diagnosis treatment is specially designed for those suffering from an addiction as well as an underlying mental health issue.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.

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