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Drug Facts

  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Millions of dollars per month are spent trafficking illegal drugs.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • In 2014, there were over 39,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths in the United States
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • 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
  • Crystal Meth use can cause insomnia, anxiety, and violent or psychotic behavior.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.

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