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Drug Facts

  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Other names of ecstasy include Eckies, E, XTC, pills, pingers, bikkies, flippers, and molly.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • 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.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.

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