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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.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • 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.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • 8.6% of 12th graders have used hallucinogens 4% report on using LSD specifically.
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • 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.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.

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