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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • The duration of cocaine's effects depends on the route of administration.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.

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