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Drug Facts

  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • Emergency room admissions due to Subutex abuse has risen by over 200% in just three years.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Over 13 million individuals abuse stimulants like Dexedrine.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • In 2007 The California Department of Toxic Substance Control was responsible for clandestine meth lab cleanup costs in Butte County totaling $26,876.00.

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