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Drug Facts

  • Crystal Meth is the world's second most popular illicit drug.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • 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.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.

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