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Drug Facts

  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports 85 percent of inmates arrive at the state prison with a history of substance abuse.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • 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.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.

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