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Drug Facts

  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Oxycodone stays in the system 1-10 days.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Over 200,000 people have abused Ketamine within the past year.

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