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Drug Facts

  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • 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.
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • Crystal meth is short for crystal methamphetamine.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.

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