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Drug Facts

  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • 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.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.

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