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Drug Facts

  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • In Utah, more than 95,000 adults and youths need substance-abuse treatment services, according to the Utah Division of Substance and Mental Health 2007 annual report.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • 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.

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