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Drug Facts

  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • 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.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Drugs and alcohol do not discriminate no matter what your gender, race, age or political affiliation addiction can affect you if you let it.
  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine. If you're a teenager, your risk is especially high.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.

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