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Drug Facts

  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • 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.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • 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.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • Almost 38 million people have admitted to have used cocaine in their lifetime.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.

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