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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Aerosols are a form of inhalants that include vegetable oil, hair spray, deodorant and spray paint.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.

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