Statistics
Medical Consequences of Drug Use
Children of Addicts
Deaths related to substance abuse
Drunk Driving
100
Approximately 1 out of every ____ Americans is living with some form of addiction
What is 8
100
Chronic use of some drugs, such as heroin, inhalants and steroids, may lead to significant damage to the _________.
What is the liver?
100
Children of addicted parents are _____ at risk for alcoholism and other drug abuse than are other children.
What is more?
100
Approximately _________ people die each year from drug overdose.
What is 100,000?
100
In 2010, this number of children were killed in drunk driving crashes.
What is 211?
200
Almost _____ percent of young adults between the ages of 18 and 21 have admitted to using drugs and/or alcohol.
What is 50 percent
200
Of course, sharing of injection equipment or fluids can lead to some of the most severe consequences of this drug's abuse- infections with hepatitis B and C, HIV, and a host of other bloodborne viruses, which drug abusers can then pass on to their sexual partners and children.
What is heroin?
200
Children of addicted parents are the highest risk group of children to become alcohol and drug abusers due to both ________ and _________ environment factors
What is genetic and family environment factors?
200
Prescription drugs kill ______ percent more Americans than illegal drugs.
What is 300%?
200
Teen alcohol use kills about ______ people each year, more than all illegal drugs combined.
What is 6000?
300
Approximately ____ percent of children under the age of 18 have admitted to experimenting with illegal drugs.
What is 15?
300
Life threatening effects of this drug include hyperthermina (having a body temperature greatly above normal), arrhythmias (abnormal muscle contractions of the heart), and renal failure (inability of the kidneys to excrete wastes and to help maintain the electrolyte balance).
What is MDMA?
300
Most welfare professionals (79.6%) report that substance abuse causes or contributes to at least ______ of all cases of child maltreatment; 39.7% say it is a factor in over 75% of the cases
What is half/ 50%?
300
In American this many people die as a result of drunk driving crashes each day.
What is 27%?
300
Out of 211 deaths children related to drunk driving, _______ (62 percent) were riding with the drunk driver.
What is 131?
400
Addiction to drugs and/or alcohol is a problem for approximately ____ million people in the United States alone.
What is 30?
400
Research has shown that some babies born to women who used this drug during their pregnancies display altered responses to visual stimuli, increased tremulousness, and a high-pitched cry, which could indicate problems with neurological development.
What is marijuana?
400
Each year, approximately 1 1,900 infants are abandoned at birth or are kept at hospitals, _____ of whom are drug-exposed, the average daily cost for each of these babies is $460.18
What is 78%?
400
This number of people die due to complications cause alcoholism each year
What is 85,00?
400
________ percent of convicted drunk drivers continue to drive on a suspended license.
What is 50 to 75%?
500
The total cost to society each year due to alcohol and/or drug addiction is estimated to be $____ billion per year.
What is 250?
500
Some of the most frequent affects of this drug are cardiovascular effects, including disturbances in heart rhythm and heart attacks; neurological effects, including strokes, seizures, headaches, and coma; and gastrointestinal complications, including abdominal pain and nausea. In rare instances, sudden death can occur on the first use of this drug or unexpectedly thereafter. These drug-related deaths are often a result of cardiac arrest or seizures followed by respiratory arrest.
What is cocaine?
500
In the U.S., about one out of every _______ children is born with fetal alcohol syndrome.
What is 1,000?
500
This many people a year die from unsupervised alcohol withdrawal.
What is 10,000?
500
MADD serves a victim or survivor of drunk and drugged driving every _______ minutes.
What is eight?
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