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Drug Facts

  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • The U.N. suspects that over 9 million people actively use ecstasy worldwide.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Texas is one of the hardest states on drug offenses.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • Millions of dollars per month are spent trafficking illegal drugs.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.

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