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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • 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.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Over 200,000 people have abused Ketamine within the past year.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.

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