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Drug Facts

  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Because of the tweaker's unpredictability, there have been reports that they can react violently, which can lead to involvement in domestic disputes, spur-of-the-moment crimes, or motor vehicle accidents.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • From 1920- 1933, the illegal trade of Alcohol was a booming industry in the U.S., causing higher rates of crime than before.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • 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.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.

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