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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • 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.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Cigarettes can kill you and they are the leading preventable cause of death.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".

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