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Drug Facts

  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • 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.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • 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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