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Drug Facts

  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • 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).
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • From 2011 to 2016, bath salt use has declined by almost 92%.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.

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