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Drug Facts

  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • 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.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • 26.9 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month.

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