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Drug Facts

  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Nitrous oxide is actually found in whipped cream dispensers as well as octane boosters for cars.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.

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