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Drug Facts

  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • 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.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • In 2012, over 16 million adults were prescribed Adderall.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Nearly one third of mushroom users reported heightened levels of anxiety.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • 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.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.

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