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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.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • 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.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • 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.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Alcohol is the most likely substance for someone to become addicted to in America.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • 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).
  • Over 750,000 people have used LSD within the past year.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.

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