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Drug Facts

  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • Authority receive over 10,500 reports of clonazepam abuse every year, and the rate is increasing.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.

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