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Drug Facts

  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • 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.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Brand names of Bath Salts include Blizzard, Blue Silk, Charge+, Ivory Snow, Ivory Wave, Ocean Burst, Pure Ivory, Purple Wave, Snow Leopard, Stardust, Vanilla Sky, White Dove, White Knight and White Lightning.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • 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 stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • 12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.
  • 8.6% of 12th graders have used hallucinogens 4% report on using LSD specifically.
  • Ecstasy can stay in one's system for 1-5 days.

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