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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Crack Cocaine is the riskiest form of a Cocaine substance.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.

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