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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.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • In 2013, more high school seniors regularly used marijuana than cigarettes as 22.7% smoked pot in the last month, compared to 16.3% who smoked cigarettes.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • In 1860, the United States was home to 1,138 Alcohol distilleries that produced over 88 million gallons each year.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • 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.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.

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