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Drug Facts

  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • 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.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • 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.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Ecstasy is one of the most popular drugs among youth today.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • In 2010, U.S. Poison Control Centers received 304 calls regarding Bath Salts.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.

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