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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • 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.
  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • There are approximately 5,000 LSD-related emergency room visits per year.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Studies show that 11 percent of male high schoolers have reported using Steroids at least once.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • In Utah, more than 95,000 adults and youths need substance-abuse treatment services, according to the Utah Division of Substance and Mental Health 2007 annual report.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • 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
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.

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