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Drug Facts

  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • 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.
  • Approximately 1.3 million people in Utah reported Methamphetamine use in the past year, and 512,000 reported current or use within in the past month.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • 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.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.

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