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Drug Facts

  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • 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.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • The most prominent drugs being abused in Alabama and requiring rehabilitation were Marijuana, Alcohol and Cocaine in 2006 5,927 people were admitted for Marijuana, 3,446 for Alcohol and an additional 2,557 admissions for Cocaine and Crack.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • 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 teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • 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.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.

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