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Drug Facts

  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Drugs and alcohol do not discriminate no matter what your gender, race, age or political affiliation addiction can affect you if you let it.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • In 2012, over 16 million adults were prescribed Adderall.
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.

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