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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.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • 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'.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • Oxycodone comes in a number of forms including capsules, tablets, liquid and suppositories. It also comes in a variety of strengths.
  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.

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