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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • 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
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • 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
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.

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