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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • GHB is a popular drug at teen parties and "raves".
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.

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