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Drug Facts

  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • 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.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.

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