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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Over 20 million individuals were abusing Darvocet before any limitations were put on the drug.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • 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.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.

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