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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Bath Salts cause brain swelling, delirium, seizures, liver failure and heart attacks.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.

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