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Drug Facts

  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)

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