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Drug Facts

  • 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'.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • 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.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • 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.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.

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