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Drug Facts

  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • 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.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • 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.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.

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