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Drug Facts

  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.

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