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Drug Facts

  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • 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.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Over 30 Million people have admitted to abusing a cannabis-based product within the last year.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.

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