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Drug Facts

  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • 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.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • 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
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.

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