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Drug Facts

  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • 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.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports 85 percent of inmates arrive at the state prison with a history of substance abuse.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Gangs, whether street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs or even prison gangs, distribute more drugs on the streets of the U.S. than any other person or persons do.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.

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