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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Nearly one third of mushroom users reported heightened levels of anxiety.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • 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.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • Bath Salts cause brain swelling, delirium, seizures, liver failure and heart attacks.

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