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Drug Facts

  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Approximately 35,000,000 Americans a year have been admitted into the hospital due abusing medications like Darvocet.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • 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.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.

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