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Drug Facts

  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • There are confidential rehab facilities which treat celebrities and executives so they you can get clean without the paparazzi or business associates finding out.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • 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.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.

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