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Drug Facts

  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.

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