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Drug Facts

  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • 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.
  • Codeine taken with alcohol can cause mental clouding, reduced coordination and slow breathing.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • There are approximately 5,000 LSD-related emergency room visits per year.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.

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