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Drug Facts

  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Taking Steroids raises the risk of aggression and irritability to over 56 percent.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • From 1920- 1933, the illegal trade of Alcohol was a booming industry in the U.S., causing higher rates of crime than before.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • 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 can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • There is holistic rehab, or natural, as opposed to traditional programs which may use drugs to treat addiction.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Other names of Cocaine include C, coke, nose candy, snow, white lady, toot, Charlie, blow, white dust or stardust.

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