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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Over 30 Million people have admitted to abusing a cannabis-based product within the last year.
  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • 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.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • 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
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.

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