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Drug Facts

  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Adderall is popular on college campuses, with black markets popping up to supply the demand of students.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Illegal drug use is declining while prescription drug abuse is rising thanks to online pharmacies and illegal selling.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.

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