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Drug Facts

  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • 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.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.

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