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Drug Facts

  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • 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.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Bath salts contain man-made stimulants called cathinone's, which are like amphetamines.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.

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