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Drug Facts

  • Aerosols are a form of inhalants that include vegetable oil, hair spray, deodorant and spray paint.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • In Utah, more than 95,000 adults and youths need substance-abuse treatment services, according to the Utah Division of Substance and Mental Health 2007 annual report.
  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.

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