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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • Penalties for possession, delivery and manufacturing of Ecstasy can include jail sentences of four years to life, and fines from $250,000 to $4 million, depending on the amount of the drug you have in your possession.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.

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