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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • 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.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.

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