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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.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.

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