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Drug Facts

  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • 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).
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • 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.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).

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