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Drug Facts

  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Stimulants can increase energy and enhance self esteem.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • 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.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • 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.
  • Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Texas is one of the hardest states on drug offenses.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.

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