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Drug Facts

  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • Psychic side effects of hallucinogens include the disassociation of time and space.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Crystal Meth use can cause insomnia, anxiety, and violent or psychotic behavior.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.

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