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Drug Facts

  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Texas is one of the hardest states on drug offenses.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • There are approximately 5,000 LSD-related emergency room visits per year.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • Over 200,000 people have abused Ketamine within the past year.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • 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.

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