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Drug Facts

  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Bath salts contain man-made stimulants called cathinone's, which are like amphetamines.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.

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