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Drug Facts

  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Out of 2.6 million people who tried marijuana for the first time, over half were under the age of 18.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • The U.S. poisoned industrial Alcohols made in the country, killing a whopping 10,000 people in the process.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '

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