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Drug Facts

  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.

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