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Drug Facts

  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • 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.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Getting blackout drunk doesn't actually make you forget: the brain temporarily loses the ability to make memories.

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