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Drug Facts

  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.

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