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Drug Facts

  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • The Barbituric acid compound was made from malonic apple acid and animal urea.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • Crystal Meth is the world's second most popular illicit drug.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.

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