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Drug Facts

  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Marijuana can stay in a person's system for 3-5 days, however, if you are a heavy user, it can be detected up to 30 days.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Crack comes in solid blocks or crystals varying in color from yellow to pale rose or white.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.

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