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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.
  • 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.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.

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