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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Ecstasy can stay in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • 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.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.

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