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Drug Facts

  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • 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
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • 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.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • When injected, Ativan can cause damage to cardiovascular and vascular systems.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.

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