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Drug Facts

  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • 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.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.

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