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Drug Facts

  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • In 2010, U.S. Poison Control Centers received 304 calls regarding Bath Salts.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Nitrous oxide is actually found in whipped cream dispensers as well as octane boosters for cars.
  • Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines,2 marijuana and heroin.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.

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