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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Ketamine is popular at dance clubs and "raves", unfortunately, some people (usually female) are not aware they have been dosed.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • 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
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.

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