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Drug Facts

  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.

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