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Drug Facts

  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • 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.
  • Aerosols are a form of inhalants that include vegetable oil, hair spray, deodorant and spray paint.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to dehydrate.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.

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