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Drug Facts

  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.
  • Emergency room admissions due to Subutex abuse has risen by over 200% in just three years.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3

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