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Drug Facts

  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • In 2005, 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. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • The Barbituric acid compound was made from malonic apple acid and animal urea.
  • In 2014, there were over 39,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths in the United States
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • 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
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.

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