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Drug Facts

  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 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.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Over 500,000 individuals have abused Ambien.
  • Studies show that 11 percent of male high schoolers have reported using Steroids at least once.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • 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.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.

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