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Drug Facts

  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to dehydrate.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Second hand smoke can kill you. In the U.S. alone over 3,000 people die every year from cancer caused by second hand smoke.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.

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