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Drug Facts

  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • After hitting the market, Ativan was used to treat insomnia, vertigo, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • Prescription medication should always be taken under the supervision of a doctor, even then, it must be noted that they can be a risk to the unborn child.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Taking Steroids raises the risk of aggression and irritability to over 56 percent.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.

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