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Drug Facts

  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Alcohol Abuse is the 3rd leading cause of preventable deaths in the U.S with over 88,000 cases of Alcohol related deaths.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Bath Salts cause brain swelling, delirium, seizures, liver failure and heart attacks.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.

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