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Drug Facts

  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • 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
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • According to a new survey, nearly two thirds of young women in the United Kingdom admitted to binge drinking so excessively they had no memory of the night before the next morning.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • 1.3% of high school seniors have tired bath salts.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • 5,477 individuals were found guilty of crack cocaine-related crimes. More than 95% of these offenders had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.

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