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Drug Facts

  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • The Barbituric acid compound was made from malonic apple acid and animal urea.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • In 2013, more high school seniors regularly used marijuana than cigarettes as 22.7% smoked pot in the last month, compared to 16.3% who smoked cigarettes.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • 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.
  • Over 53 Million Opiate-based prescriptions are filled each year.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • 12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • Nitrous oxide is actually found in whipped cream dispensers as well as octane boosters for cars.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.

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