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Drug Facts

  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine. If you're a teenager, your risk is especially high.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • 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.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.

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