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Drug Facts

  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • 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
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • 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.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.

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