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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • 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.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.

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