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Drug Facts

  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.

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