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Drug Facts

  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • About 1 in 4 college students report academic consequences from drinking, including missing class, falling behind in class, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.30
  • MDMA is known on the streets as: Molly, ecstasy, XTC, X, E, Adam, Eve, clarity, hug, beans, love drug, lovers' speed, peace, uppers.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.

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