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Drug Facts

  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • 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.

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