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Drug Facts

  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • 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.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine. If you're a teenager, your risk is especially high.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.

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