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Drug Facts

  • 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).
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Crack Cocaine is categorized next to PCP and Meth as an illegal Schedule II drug.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Mixing Adderall with Alcohol increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.

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