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Drug Facts

  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Cocaine has long been used for its ability to boost energy, relieve fatigue and lessen hunger.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • 1.3% of high school seniors have tired bath salts.

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