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Drug Facts

  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Rohypnol has no odor or taste so it can be put into someone's drink without being detected, which has lead to it being called the "Date Rape Drug".
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.

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