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Drug Facts

  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Gangs, whether street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs or even prison gangs, distribute more drugs on the streets of the U.S. than any other person or persons do.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Substance Use Treatment at a Specialty Facility: Treatment received at a hospital (inpatient only), rehabilitation facility (inpatient or outpatient), or mental health center to reduce alcohol use, or to address medical problems associated with alcohol use.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Family intervention has been found to be upwards of ninety percent successful and professionally conducted interventions have a success rate of near 98 percent.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Other names of Cocaine include C, coke, nose candy, snow, white lady, toot, Charlie, blow, white dust or stardust.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Methamphetamine production is a relatively simple process, especially when compared to many other recreational drugs.

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