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Drug Facts

  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • 8.6% of 12th graders have used hallucinogens 4% report on using LSD specifically.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • In 2012, over 16 million adults were prescribed Adderall.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.

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