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Drug Facts

  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1

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