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Drug Facts

  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • In Alabama during the year 2006 a total of 20,340 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • GHB is a popular drug at teen parties and "raves".
  • Ambien can cause severe allergic reactions such as hives, breathing problems and swelling of the mouth, tongue and throat.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Getting blackout drunk doesn't actually make you forget: the brain temporarily loses the ability to make memories.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.

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