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Drug Facts

  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • 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.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Oxycodone stays in the system 1-10 days.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.

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