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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • In 2010, U.S. Poison Control Centers received 304 calls regarding Bath Salts.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.

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