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Drug Facts

  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.
  • 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.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • Over 500,000 individuals have abused Ambien.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • When injected, Ativan can cause damage to cardiovascular and vascular systems.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Stimulants can increase energy and enhance self esteem.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.

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