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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • 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.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Ativan is faster acting and more addictive than other Benzodiazepines.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.

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