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Drug Facts

  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • LSD (or its full name: lysergic acid diethylamide) is a potent hallucinogen that dramatically alters your thoughts and your perception of reality.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • 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.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Over 53 Million Opiate-based prescriptions are filled each year.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.

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