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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • In Utah, more than 95,000 adults and youths need substance-abuse treatment services, according to the Utah Division of Substance and Mental Health 2007 annual report.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.

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