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Drug Facts

  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Steroid use can lead to clogs in the blood vessels, which can then lead to strokes and heart disease.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • 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.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • Almost 38 million people have admitted to have used cocaine in their lifetime.

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