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Drug Facts

  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • According to a new survey, nearly two thirds of young women in the United Kingdom admitted to binge drinking so excessively they had no memory of the night before the next morning.
  • 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.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.

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