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Drug Facts

  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • There are many types of drug and alcohol rehab available throughout the world.
  • 26.7% of 10th graders reported using Marijuana.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Ecstasy can stay in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.

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