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Drug Facts

  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Illegal drug use is declining while prescription drug abuse is rising thanks to online pharmacies and illegal selling.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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