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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.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • Between 2000 and 2006 the average number of alcohol related motor vehicle crashes in Utah resulting in death was approximately 59, resulting in an average of nearly 67 fatalities per year.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Some common names for anabolic steroids are Gear, Juice, Roids, and Stackers.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • Approximately 1.3 million people in Utah reported Methamphetamine use in the past year, and 512,000 reported current or use within in the past month.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.

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