- Some drugs can change the brain in ways that last long after the person has stopped taking drugs
- There are thousand of different nicknames for drugs
- Many teens take drugs in fact 60% of teens that make it out of grade school would have taken unprescribed and illegal drugs
- Teens whose parents talk to them regularly about the dangers of drugs are 42 percent less likely to use drugs than those whose parents don't.
- More then 60 percent of teens said drugs were sold , used , and kept in school.
- Young people who drink alcohol are 50 times more likely to use cocaine than teens who never drink.
- About 64 percent of teens surveyed who have abused pain relievers say they got them from friends or relatives.
- Around 28 percent of teens know a friend or classmate who has used ecstasy, with 17 percent knowing more than one user.