Illicit drug use was not that common before the early 1960s. Prescription drugs were also far less popular then too, as psychiatry had not yet “invented“ all of the mental maladies that they have managed to come up with over the last few decades. Now an estimated 185 million people internationally consume drugs. It is a worldwide epidemic.
In the United States, results from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health revealed that 19.5 million Americans (or 8.2% of the population aged 12 or older) were illicit drug users during the month previous to the survey. It has increased significantly since then as has the use of prescribed drugs, many times over prescribed drugs.
Alcohol is the most commonly abused drug in the United States. Yes, alcohol is absolutely a drug. If you take an excessive amount of it, it can kill you just as any other drug, even over-the-counter drugs, such as aspirin, are poisonous at high enough dosages. The reports of alcohol abuse destroying families from top to bottom are legend, not to mention all the lives lost through alcohol related car accidents.
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug on earth. Long term use can increase the chances of tissue damage and lung cancer and also causes changes in the brain similar to those caused by heroin and cocaine.
Several studies have associated marijuana with poor school performance. Ithttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif is harder to concentrate and retain information when someone has been smoking marijuana. Sixty percent of teenagers in drug rehab facilities are there because of marijuana. Smoking marijuana can lead to the use of other stronger drugs, but, make no mistake, continued marijuana use, all by itself, is dangerous.
Internationally, amphetamine and ecstacy, drugs associated with the “rave” or dance scene, are commonly used. Methamphetamine, “crystal meth,” heroin and cocaine are frequently abused drugs.
In 2008 an estimated 4.5 million Americans were using cocaine. Hallucinogenics were used by an estimated 1.3 million Americans and heroin by an estimated 119,000 Americans in the month prior to the survey done. Even over-the-counter or pharmaceutical pain pills (such as OxyContin and Ritalin) may be, and havehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif been, commonly abused.
Don’t get caught into the trap of drug or alcohol abuse. But if you, or anyone you are close to, does succumb to addiction do not be reluctant to use a good drug rehab facility to get you whole again and start your life anew.
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