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Drug Facts

  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • 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.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade

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