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Drug Facts

  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • In Alabama during the year 2006 a total of 20,340 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • 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
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • Texas is one of the hardest states on drug offenses.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.

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