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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.
  • Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine, which normally comes in a powder form.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.

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