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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.

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