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Drug Facts

  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance 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.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Ambien is a sedative-hypnotic known to cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and death.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • 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.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • In 2009, a Wisconsin man sleepwalked outside and froze to death after taking Ambien.

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