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Drug Facts

  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • The most prominent drugs being abused in Alabama and requiring rehabilitation were Marijuana, Alcohol and Cocaine in 2006 5,927 people were admitted for Marijuana, 3,446 for Alcohol and an additional 2,557 admissions for Cocaine and Crack.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Prescription drug spending increased 9.0% to $324.6 billion in 2015, slower than the 12.4% growth in 2014.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.

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