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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.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • 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.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Some common names for anabolic steroids are Gear, Juice, Roids, and Stackers.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Crack Cocaine is categorized next to PCP and Meth as an illegal Schedule II drug.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Crystal Meth is the world's second most popular illicit drug.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.

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