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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • MDMA is known on the streets as: Molly, ecstasy, XTC, X, E, Adam, Eve, clarity, hug, beans, love drug, lovers' speed, peace, uppers.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • 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.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • Other names of Cocaine include C, coke, nose candy, snow, white lady, toot, Charlie, blow, white dust or stardust.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Many people wrongly imprisoned under conspiracy laws are women who did nothing more than pick up a phone and take a message for their spouse, boyfriend, child or neighbor.
  • 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.

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