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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Ativan is one of the strongest Benzodiazepines on the market.
  • MDMA is known on the streets as: Molly, ecstasy, XTC, X, E, Adam, Eve, clarity, hug, beans, love drug, lovers' speed, peace, uppers.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Using Crack Cocaine, even once, can result in life altering addiction.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.

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