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Drug Facts

  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 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
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • Ativan is faster acting and more addictive than other Benzodiazepines.
  • 5,477 individuals were found guilty of crack cocaine-related crimes. More than 95% of these offenders had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.

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