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Drug Facts

  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • 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.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • The U.S. poisoned industrial Alcohols made in the country, killing a whopping 10,000 people in the process.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • 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.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • About 1 in 4 college students report academic consequences from drinking, including missing class, falling behind in class, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.30
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.

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