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Drug Facts

  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • The U.N. suspects that over 9 million people actively use ecstasy worldwide.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.

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