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Drug Facts

  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Ambien can cause severe allergic reactions such as hives, breathing problems and swelling of the mouth, tongue and throat.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.

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