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Drug Facts

  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • Cocaine use can cause the placenta to separate from the uterus, causing internal bleeding.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • 1.3% of high school seniors have tired bath salts.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Cocaine comes in two forms. One is a powder and the other is a rock. The rock form of cocaine is referred to as crack cocaine.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • The U.S. poisoned industrial Alcohols made in the country, killing a whopping 10,000 people in the process.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • 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.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death

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