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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.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.

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