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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.

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