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Drug Facts

  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • 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 500,000 individuals have abused Ambien.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.

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