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Drug Facts

  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • 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.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • Steroid use can lead to clogs in the blood vessels, which can then lead to strokes and heart disease.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Psychic side effects of hallucinogens include the disassociation of time and space.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • In Utah, more than 95,000 adults and youths need substance-abuse treatment services, according to the Utah Division of Substance and Mental Health 2007 annual report.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.

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