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Drug Facts

  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • 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.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.

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