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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.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.

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