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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • Using Crack Cocaine, even once, can result in life altering addiction.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports 85 percent of inmates arrive at the state prison with a history of substance abuse.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • In 2010, 42,274 emergency rooms visits were due to Ambien.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.

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