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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • 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
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes

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