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Drug Facts

  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous and potent drugs, with the great potential of causing seizures and heart-related injuries such as stopping the heart, whether one is a short term or long term user.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.

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