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Drug Facts

  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • LSD can stay in one's system from a few hours to five days.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.

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