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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • 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.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Interventions can facilitate the development of healthy interpersonal relationships and improve the participant's ability to interact with family, peers, and others in the community.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Taking Steroids raises the risk of aggression and irritability to over 56 percent.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.

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