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Drug Facts

  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Illegal drug use is declining while prescription drug abuse is rising thanks to online pharmacies and illegal selling.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.

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