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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Meth users often have bad teeth from poor oral hygiene, dry mouth as meth can crack and deteriorate teeth.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • Methamphetamine production is a relatively simple process, especially when compared to many other recreational drugs.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.

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