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Drug Facts

  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • 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.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • 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.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.

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