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Drug Facts

  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • 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.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • 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.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Bath salts contain man-made stimulants called cathinone's, which are like amphetamines.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.

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