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Drug Facts

  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • 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
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines,2 marijuana and heroin.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • In 2010, 42,274 emergency rooms visits were due to Ambien.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3

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