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Drug Facts

  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • 5,477 individuals were found guilty of crack cocaine-related crimes. More than 95% of these offenders had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.

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