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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Half of all Ambien related ER visits involved other drug interaction.
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.

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