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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.

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