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Drug Facts

  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to dehydrate.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.

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