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Drug Facts

  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • The U.S. utilizes over 65% of the world's supply of Dilaudid.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • 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.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Gangs, whether street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs or even prison gangs, distribute more drugs on the streets of the U.S. than any other person or persons do.
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.

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