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Drug Facts

  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • Brand names of Bath Salts include Blizzard, Blue Silk, Charge+, Ivory Snow, Ivory Wave, Ocean Burst, Pure Ivory, Purple Wave, Snow Leopard, Stardust, Vanilla Sky, White Dove, White Knight and White Lightning.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • In 2014, there were over 39,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths in the United States
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.

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