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Drug Facts
- Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
- Cocaine comes in two forms. One is a powder and the other is a rock. The rock form of cocaine is referred to as crack cocaine.
- Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
- In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
- Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
- Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
- Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
- For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
- The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
- People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
- Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
- In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.
- 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
- Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
- Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
- Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
- Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.
- More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
- Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
- Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
- Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
- In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
- Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
- Ecstasy can stay in one's system for 1-5 days.
- Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
- There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
- In the year 2006 a total of 13,693 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs in Arkansas.