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Drug Facts

  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • 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.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Over 53 Million Opiate-based prescriptions are filled each year.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.

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