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Drug Facts

  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • 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.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.

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