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Drug Facts

  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.

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