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Drug Facts

  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.

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