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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • 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.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • 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.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Approximately 35,000,000 Americans a year have been admitted into the hospital due abusing medications like Darvocet.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.

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