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Drug Facts

  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • 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.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • K2 and Spice are synthetic marijuana compounds, also known as cannabinoids.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Bath salts contain man-made stimulants called cathinone's, which are like amphetamines.
  • Brand names of Bath Salts include Blizzard, Blue Silk, Charge+, Ivory Snow, Ivory Wave, Ocean Burst, Pure Ivory, Purple Wave, Snow Leopard, Stardust, Vanilla Sky, White Dove, White Knight and White Lightning.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • 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.

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