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Drug Facts

  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Authority receive over 10,500 reports of clonazepam abuse every year, and the rate is increasing.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • 33.1 percent of 15-year-olds report that they have had at least 1 drink in their lives.
  • 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.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.

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