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Drug Facts

  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • Women in bars can suffer from sexually aggressive acts if they are drinking heavily.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Between 2000 and 2006 the average number of alcohol related motor vehicle crashes in Utah resulting in death was approximately 59, resulting in an average of nearly 67 fatalities per year.

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