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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.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Emergency room admissions due to Subutex abuse has risen by over 200% in just three years.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • 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.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Nearly one third of mushroom users reported heightened levels of anxiety.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.

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