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Did You Know? ...
Interesting Facts and Statistics:
Crystal methamphetamine typically resembles small fragments of shiny whit pebbles and rocks in a variety of different sizes.
Increased cocaine use can reduce the period of stimulation.
The rate of binge drinking was 41.9 percent for young adults aged 18 to 25. Heavy alcohol use was reported by 15.3 percent of persons aged 18 to 25. These rates are similar to the rates in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
In 2008, of the 2.9 million persons aged 12 or older who used illegal drugs for the first time within the past 12 months, a majority reported that their first drug was marijuana (56.6 percent). Nearly one third initiated with psychotherapeutics (29.6 percent, including 22.5 percent with pain relievers, 3.2 percent with tranquilizers, 3.0 percent with stimulants, and 0.8 percent with sedatives). A sizable proportion reported inhalants (9.7 percent) as their first drug, and a small proportion used hallucinogens as their first illegal drug (3.2 percent). Between 2007 and 2008, the percentage of past year illegal drug initiates whose first drug was tranquilizers decreased from 6.5 to 3.2 percent, while the percentage whose first drug was inhalants decreased between 2003 and 2008 from 12.9 to 9.7 percent.
3.8 million people (1.5 percent of the population above 12) say they have tried heroin at least once in their lifetimes.
Among persons aged 12 or older who used pain relievers nonmedically in the past 12 months, 59.8 percent reported that the source of the drug the most recent time they used was from a friend or relative for free. Another 16.8 percent reported they got the drug from one doctor. Only 4.3 percent got the pain relievers from a drug dealer or other stranger, and only 0.8 percent reported buying the drug on the Internet.
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