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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • 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.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • In 2007 The California Department of Toxic Substance Control was responsible for clandestine meth lab cleanup costs in Butte County totaling $26,876.00.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Nearly 2/3 of those found in addiction recovery centers report sexual or physical abuse as children.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • 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.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.

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