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Drug Facts

  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • There are many types of drug and alcohol rehab available throughout the world.
  • Cocaine comes in two forms. One is a powder and the other is a rock. The rock form of cocaine is referred to as crack cocaine.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • 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.
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Ecstasy is one of the most popular drugs among youth today.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.

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