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Drug Facts

  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • 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'.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • 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.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.

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