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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.

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