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Drug Facts

  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • 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.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Over 30 Million people have admitted to abusing a cannabis-based product within the last year.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.

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