Amphetamine and methamphetamine are legally manufactured in tablet form in the U.S. and can be prescribed by a physician.
Annual rates of hallucinogen use in the U.S. have increased significantly among high school seniors in both annual (2.6 percent) and past-month (0.8 percent) use of LSD.
The death toll from drug-related overdoses in the U.S. during 2005 was reported to be equivalent to a hundred 757's crashing and killing every person on board.
After marijuana, prescription and over-the-counter drugs are the top drugs abused by 12th graders in the past year.
Among two populations of Southwestern Plains Indians ages newborn to 14 years, 10.7 of every 1,000 children were born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.