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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Prescription medications are legal 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.
  • LSD (or its full name: lysergic acid diethylamide) is a potent hallucinogen that dramatically alters your thoughts and your perception of reality.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.

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