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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.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • 8.6% of 12th graders have used hallucinogens 4% report on using LSD specifically.
  • 5,477 individuals were found guilty of crack cocaine-related crimes. More than 95% of these offenders had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.

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