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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.
  • 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.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Over 30 million people abuse Crystal Meth worldwide.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.
  • Contrary to popular belief, Bath Salts do not cause cannibalistic behavior.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 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.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.

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