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Drug Facts

  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • 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
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • 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.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Every day, we have over 8,100 NEW drug users in America. That's 3.1 million new users every year.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time

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