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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.
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.

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