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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Over 30 Million people have admitted to abusing a cannabis-based product within the last year.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.

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