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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • 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.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • 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

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