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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Cocaine hydrochloride is most commonly snorted. It can also be injected, rubbed into the gums, added to drinks or food.
  • Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.
  • 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).
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • The U.N. suspects that over 9 million people actively use ecstasy worldwide.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.

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