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Drug Facts

  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 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.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.

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