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Drug Facts

  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Ecstasy is one of the most popular drugs among youth today.
  • Ritalin is easy to get, and cheap.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • 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.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.

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