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Drug Facts

  • In 2012, over 16 million adults were prescribed Adderall.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.

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