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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • In 2013, more high school seniors regularly used marijuana than cigarettes as 22.7% smoked pot in the last month, compared to 16.3% who smoked cigarettes.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Women in bars can suffer from sexually aggressive acts if they are drinking heavily.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Over 30 Million people have admitted to abusing a cannabis-based product within the last year.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.

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