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Drug Facts

  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.

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