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Drug Facts

  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • Cocaine hydrochloride is most commonly snorted. It can also be injected, rubbed into the gums, added to drinks or food.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • Ecstasy comes in a tablet form and is usually swallowed. The pills come in different colours and sizes and are often imprinted with a picture or symbol1. It can also come as capsules, powder or crystal/rock.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Cocaine has long been used for its ability to boost energy, relieve fatigue and lessen hunger.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • 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.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.

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