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Drug Facts

  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • 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.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • 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.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Crystal meth is short for crystal methamphetamine.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.

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