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Drug Facts

  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Women in bars can suffer from sexually aggressive acts if they are drinking heavily.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 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.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • 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.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • The U.S. utilizes over 65% of the world's supply of Dilaudid.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • Crystal Meth is the world's second most popular illicit drug.

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