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Drug Facts

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
Its rock form is far more addictive and potent than its powder form.
Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.

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Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
Ritalin is easy to get, and cheap.
In addition, users may have cracked teeth due to extreme jaw-clenching during a Crystral Meth high.
Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.

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