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Drug Facts

  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • 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.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Ecstasy is one of the most popular drugs among youth today.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • 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.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • 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.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.

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