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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Rohypnol has no odor or taste so it can be put into someone's drink without being detected, which has lead to it being called the "Date Rape Drug".
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Its rock form is far more addictive and potent than its powder form.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • 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.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.

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