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Drug Facts

  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • 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.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.

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