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Drug Facts


  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Inhalants are a form of drug use that is entirely too easy to get and more lethal than kids comprehend.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.

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