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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Approximately 28% of Utah adults 18-25 indicated binge drinking in the past months of 2006.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Ativan is faster acting and more addictive than other Benzodiazepines.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.

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