Drug Facts

Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
Prescription drug spending increased 9.0% to $324.6 billion in 2015, slower than the 12.4% growth in 2014.
About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
Contrary to popular belief, Bath Salts do not cause cannibalistic behavior.
Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
Ecstasy can stay in one's system for 1-5 days.