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Drug Facts

  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • Half of all Ambien related ER visits involved other drug interaction.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.

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