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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • 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.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.

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