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Drug Facts

  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • In 2005, 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. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.

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