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Drug Facts

  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Bath Salts cause brain swelling, delirium, seizures, liver failure and heart attacks.
  • Nitrous oxide is actually found in whipped cream dispensers as well as octane boosters for cars.

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