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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Overdose deaths linked to Benzodiazepines, like Ativan, have seen a 4.3-fold increase from 2002 to 2015.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • 28% of teens know at least 1 person who has tried ecstasy.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.

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