Drug Facts

Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
Prescription medications are legal drugs.
About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine in their lifetime.
Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2