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Drug Facts

  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Almost 38 million people have admitted to have used cocaine in their lifetime.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • 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.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.

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