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Drug Facts

  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • In 2009, a Wisconsin man sleepwalked outside and froze to death after taking Ambien.
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • Psychic side effects of hallucinogens include the disassociation of time and space.

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