Drug Facts

Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
Stimulants can increase energy and enhance self esteem.
Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.
More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.