Drug Facts

Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.
Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
Second hand smoke can kill you. In the U.S. alone over 3,000 people die every year from cancer caused by second hand smoke.
Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.
Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
33.1 percent of 15-year-olds report that they have had at least 1 drink in their lives.