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Drug Facts

  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Authority receive over 10,500 reports of clonazepam abuse every year, and the rate is increasing.
  • Approximately 28% of Utah adults 18-25 indicated binge drinking in the past months of 2006.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • 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.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • 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
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.

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