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Drug Facts

  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • 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.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • 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.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.

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