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Drug Facts

  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • 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.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • 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.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Ambien is a sedative-hypnotic known to cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and death.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.

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