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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • 1.3% of high school seniors have tired bath salts.

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