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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Over 30 million people abuse Crystal Meth worldwide.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • 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.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • 26.9 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • LSD can stay in one's system from a few hours to five days.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.

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