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Drug Facts

  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • The duration of cocaine's effects depends on the route of administration.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • In 2005, 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. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • 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.
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Taking Steroids raises the risk of aggression and irritability to over 56 percent.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.

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