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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 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
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Other names of ecstasy include Eckies, E, XTC, pills, pingers, bikkies, flippers, and molly.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.

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