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Drug Facts

  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 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.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Alcohol-Impaired-Driving Fatality: A fatality in a crash involving a driver or motorcycle rider (operator) with a BAC of 0.08 g/dL or greater.
  • Texas is one of the hardest states on drug offenses.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.

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