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Drug Facts

  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • 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.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.

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