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Drug Facts

  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Women in bars can suffer from sexually aggressive acts if they are drinking heavily.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Over 500,000 individuals have abused Ambien.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • 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.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • 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
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.

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