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Drug Facts

  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • 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.
  • Over 80% of individuals have confidence that prescription drug abuse will only continue to grow.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.

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