Drug Facts

Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
Some common names for anabolic steroids are Gear, Juice, Roids, and Stackers.
There is holistic rehab, or natural, as opposed to traditional programs which may use drugs to treat addiction.
Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".