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Drug Facts

  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Inhalants are a form of drug use that is entirely too easy to get and more lethal than kids comprehend.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Emergency room admissions due to Subutex abuse has risen by over 200% in just three years.
  • 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.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Crack comes in solid blocks or crystals varying in color from yellow to pale rose or white.
  • 12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.

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