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Drug Facts

  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • 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.
  • Statistics say that prohibition made Alcohol abuse worse, with more people drinking more than ever.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.

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