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Drug Facts

  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • 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.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.

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