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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Codeine taken with alcohol can cause mental clouding, reduced coordination and slow breathing.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Crystal Meth is the world's second most popular illicit drug.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.

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