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Drug Facts

  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • 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.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.

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