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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine production is a relatively simple process, especially when compared to many other recreational drugs.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • 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
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • 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.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • High dosages of ketamine can lead to the feeling of an out of body experience or even death.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Because of the tweaker's unpredictability, there have been reports that they can react violently, which can lead to involvement in domestic disputes, spur-of-the-moment crimes, or motor vehicle accidents.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.

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