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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • 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.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Over 20 million individuals were abusing Darvocet before any limitations were put on the drug.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.

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