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Drug Facts

  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • 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.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.

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