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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • 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
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.
  • Many people wrongly imprisoned under conspiracy laws are women who did nothing more than pick up a phone and take a message for their spouse, boyfriend, child or neighbor.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Steroid use can lead to clogs in the blood vessels, which can then lead to strokes and heart disease.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.

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