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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.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • In 2014, over 354,000 U.S. citizens were daily users of Crack.

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