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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • 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.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • 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
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.

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