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Drug Facts

  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • In 2014, over 913,000 people were reported to be addicted to cocaine.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • Ativan is faster acting and more addictive than other Benzodiazepines.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.

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