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Drug Facts

  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Oxycodone comes in a number of forms including capsules, tablets, liquid and suppositories. It also comes in a variety of strengths.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.

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