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Drug Facts

  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • 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.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Nearly one third of mushroom users reported heightened levels of anxiety.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.

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