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Drug Facts

  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • 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 U.S. utilizes over 65% of the world's supply of Dilaudid.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • 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.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • Those who complete prison-based treatment and continue with treatment in the community have the best outcomes.

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