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Drug Facts

  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.

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