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Drug Facts

  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.

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