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Drug Facts

  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Second hand smoke can kill you. In the U.S. alone over 3,000 people die every year from cancer caused by second hand smoke.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • 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.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time

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