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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • Getting blackout drunk doesn't actually make you forget: the brain temporarily loses the ability to make memories.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • 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.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.

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