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Drug Facts

  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • 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.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • 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.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

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