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Drug Facts

  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.

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