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Drug Facts

  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.

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