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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • 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.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • There are approximately 5,000 LSD-related emergency room visits per year.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.

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