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Drug Facts

  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Authority obtains over 10,500 accounts of clonazepam abuse annually.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • 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.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 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.

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