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Drug Facts

  • In 2010, U.S. Poison Control Centers received 304 calls regarding Bath Salts.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • 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.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.

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