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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • 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.
  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Ativan is faster acting and more addictive than other Benzodiazepines.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.

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