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Drug Facts

  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Methamphetamine production is a relatively simple process, especially when compared to many other recreational drugs.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Crystal Meth is the world's second most popular illicit drug.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.

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