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Drug Facts

  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • 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.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Approximately 28% of Utah adults 18-25 indicated binge drinking in the past months of 2006.
  • Even if you smoke just a few cigarettes a week, you can get addicted to nicotine in a few weeks or even days. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely you are to become addicted.

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