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Drug Facts

  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • 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.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • 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.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.

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