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Cocaine Use in Massachusetts Over a One Year Period (Annual Averages Based on 2002 and 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health):

  • In Massachusetts it was estimated on a survey-weighted hierarchical Bayes estimation approach that the total number of cocaine users in a one year period was 153,000.
    • An estimated 10,000 of the cocaine users in Massachusetts over a one year period were between the ages of 12-17 years old.
    • An estimated 53,000 of the cocaine users in Massachusetts over a one year period were between the ages of 18-25 years old.
    • An estimated 90,000 of the cocaine users in Massachusetts over a one year period were 26 or older.
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Today it is estimated that 22 to 25 million people have tried cocaine at least once. Conservative estimates indicate that there are over two million cocaine addicts in the United States today.
Ecstasy-related emergency room incidents increased nationwide from 250 in 1994, to 637 in 1997, to 1,142 in 1998, to 2,850 in 1999.
There is a wealth of information regarding heroin facts and the short term effects of the drug. Soon after injection (or inhalation), heroin crosses the blood-brain barrier. In the brain, heroin is converted to morphine and binds rapidly to opioid receptors. Abusers typically report feeling a surge of pleasurable sensation - a "rush." The intensity of the rush is a function of how much drug is taken and how rapidly the drug enters the brain and binds to the natural opioid receptors.
After the initial effects, abusers usually will be drowsy for several hours. Mental function is clouded by heroin's effect on the central nervous system. Cardiac function slows. Heroin facts about its short term effects include severely slowed breathing, sometimes to the point of death. Both first time users and experienced heroin abusers are at risk for overdose because they never know the true purity of the heroin they are using. A heroin overdose can take place if the heroin the user has purchased is stronger than they anticipated or if the drug has been “cut” with a dangerous chemical.  

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