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Drug Facts

  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.

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