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Drug Facts

  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • 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.
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Other names of ecstasy include Eckies, E, XTC, pills, pingers, bikkies, flippers, and molly.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 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.

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