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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • 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.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.

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