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Drug Facts

  • Every day, we have over 8,100 NEW drug users in America. That's 3.1 million new users every year.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.

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