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Drug Facts

  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Stimulants can increase energy and enhance self esteem.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • 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.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium

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