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Drug Facts

  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Cocaine use can cause the placenta to separate from the uterus, causing internal bleeding.
  • Psychic side effects of hallucinogens include the disassociation of time and space.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • 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.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease

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