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Drug Facts

  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Many people wrongly imprisoned under conspiracy laws are women who did nothing more than pick up a phone and take a message for their spouse, boyfriend, child or neighbor.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.

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