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Drug Facts

  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Emergency room admissions due to Subutex abuse has risen by over 200% in just three years.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • Other names of ecstasy include Eckies, E, XTC, pills, pingers, bikkies, flippers, and molly.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.

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