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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Marijuana can stay in a person's system for 3-5 days, however, if you are a heavy user, it can be detected up to 30 days.
  • 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.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.

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