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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.

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