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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • About 1 in 4 college students report academic consequences from drinking, including missing class, falling behind in class, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.30
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Teens who consistently learn about the risks of drugs from their parents are up to 50% less likely to use drugs than those who don't.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.

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