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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • 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.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • 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.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.

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