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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.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Over 20 million individuals were abusing Darvocet before any limitations were put on the drug.
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Over 30 Million people have admitted to abusing a cannabis-based product within the last year.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to dehydrate.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.

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