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Drug Facts

  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.

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