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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • Approximately 28% of Utah adults 18-25 indicated binge drinking in the past months of 2006.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.

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