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Drug Facts

  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The U.N. suspects that over 9 million people actively use ecstasy worldwide.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.

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