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Drug Facts

  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Bath salts contain man-made stimulants called cathinone's, which are like amphetamines.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.

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