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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.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • From 1920- 1933, the illegal trade of Alcohol was a booming industry in the U.S., causing higher rates of crime than before.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • 33.1 percent of 15-year-olds report that they have had at least 1 drink in their lives.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • Rohypnol has no odor or taste so it can be put into someone's drink without being detected, which has lead to it being called the "Date Rape Drug".
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.

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