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Drug Facts

  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Oxycodone comes in a number of forms including capsules, tablets, liquid and suppositories. It also comes in a variety of strengths.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Other names of ecstasy include Eckies, E, XTC, pills, pingers, bikkies, flippers, and molly.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.

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