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Drug Facts

  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • 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'.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.

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