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Drug Facts

  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • 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.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1

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