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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.

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