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Drug Facts

  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • In Utah, more than 95,000 adults and youths need substance-abuse treatment services, according to the Utah Division of Substance and Mental Health 2007 annual report.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.

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