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Drug Facts

  • 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).
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • From 1920- 1933, the illegal trade of Alcohol was a booming industry in the U.S., causing higher rates of crime than before.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.

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