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Drug Facts

  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.

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