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Drug Facts

  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to dehydrate.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.

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