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Drug Facts

  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • 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.
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • 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.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.

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