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Drug Facts

  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Approximately 35,000,000 Americans a year have been admitted into the hospital due abusing medications like Darvocet.
  • Nearly 2/3 of those found in addiction recovery centers report sexual or physical abuse as children.
  • 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.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.

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