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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
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • There are innocent people behind bars because of the drug conspiracy laws.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.

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