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Drug Facts

  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • 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).
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Adderall is popular on college campuses, with black markets popping up to supply the demand of students.
  • 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
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Ativan is one of the strongest Benzodiazepines on the market.

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