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Drug Facts

  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • 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.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • 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.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Half of all Ambien related ER visits involved other drug interaction.

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