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Drug Facts

  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Methamphetamine can cause cardiac damage, elevates heart rate and blood pressure, and can cause a variety of cardiovascular problems, including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • 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.
  • 28% of teens know at least 1 person who has tried ecstasy.
  • 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.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • The Barbituric acid compound was made from malonic apple acid and animal urea.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.

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