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Drug Facts

  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • GHB is a popular drug at teen parties and "raves".
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Alcohol Abuse is the 3rd leading cause of preventable deaths in the U.S with over 88,000 cases of Alcohol related deaths.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Contrary to popular belief, Bath Salts do not cause cannibalistic behavior.

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