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Drug Facts

  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • The U.S. poisoned industrial Alcohols made in the country, killing a whopping 10,000 people in the process.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • 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.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.

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