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Drug Facts

  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • 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.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Studies show that 11 percent of male high schoolers have reported using Steroids at least once.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • Psychic side effects of hallucinogens include the disassociation of time and space.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '

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