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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Over 200,000 people have abused Ketamine within the past year.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.

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