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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Ketamine hydrochloride, or 'K,' is a powerful anesthetic designed for use during operations and medical procedures.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • 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.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.

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