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Drug Facts

  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • 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.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Second hand smoke can kill you. In the U.S. alone over 3,000 people die every year from cancer caused by second hand smoke.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Methamphetamine can cause cardiac damage, elevates heart rate and blood pressure, and can cause a variety of cardiovascular problems, including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.

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