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Drug Facts

  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • 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.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.

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