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Drug Facts

  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • Marijuana can stay in a person's system for 3-5 days, however, if you are a heavy user, it can be detected up to 30 days.
  • 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.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.

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