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Drug Facts

  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Cocaine has long been used for its ability to boost energy, relieve fatigue and lessen hunger.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Because of the tweaker's unpredictability, there have been reports that they can react violently, which can lead to involvement in domestic disputes, spur-of-the-moment crimes, or motor vehicle accidents.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.

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