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Drug Facts

  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.

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