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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • 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.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.

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