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Drug Facts

  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • 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.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.

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