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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Over 200,000 people have abused Ketamine within the past year.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • 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.
  • Many people wrongly imprisoned under conspiracy laws are women who did nothing more than pick up a phone and take a message for their spouse, boyfriend, child or neighbor.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.

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