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Drug Facts

  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • 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.
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • 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.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Cocaine use can cause the placenta to separate from the uterus, causing internal bleeding.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.

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