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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.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives

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