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Drug Facts

  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • Methamphetamine production is a relatively simple process, especially when compared to many other recreational drugs.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.

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