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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Ambien is a sedative-hypnotic known to cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and death.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • 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.
  • Approximately 28% of Utah adults 18-25 indicated binge drinking in the past months of 2006.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.

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