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Drug Facts

  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.

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