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Drug Facts

  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Cocaine comes in two forms. One is a powder and the other is a rock. The rock form of cocaine is referred to as crack cocaine.
  • 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.
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.

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