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Drug Facts

  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S

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