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Drug Facts

  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.
  • 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.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • 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.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • 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.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • 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.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.

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