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Drug Facts

  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • Over 53 Million Oxycodone prescriptions are filled each year.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time

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