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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • 12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.

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