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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Between 2000 and 2006 the average number of alcohol related motor vehicle crashes in Utah resulting in death was approximately 59, resulting in an average of nearly 67 fatalities per year.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.

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