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Drug Facts

  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • In 2014, over 913,000 people were reported to be addicted to cocaine.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • 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.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • 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.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.

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