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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • 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.
  • Over 200,000 people have abused Ketamine within the past year.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.

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