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Drug Facts

  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Ecstasy can stay in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Nearly 2/3 of those found in addiction recovery centers report sexual or physical abuse as children.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • 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.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Every day, we have over 8,100 NEW drug users in America. That's 3.1 million new users every year.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • 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.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.

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