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Drug Facts

  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Approximately 35,000,000 Americans a year have been admitted into the hospital due abusing medications like Darvocet.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Approximately 1.3 million people in Utah reported Methamphetamine use in the past year, and 512,000 reported current or use within in the past month.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Coke Bugs or Snow Bugs are an illusion of bugs crawling underneath one's skin and often experienced by Crack Cocaine users.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.

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