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Drug Facts

  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • K2 and Spice are synthetic marijuana compounds, also known as cannabinoids.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.

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