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Drug Facts

  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • The U.S. poisoned industrial Alcohols made in the country, killing a whopping 10,000 people in the process.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".

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