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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
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • In 1860, the United States was home to 1,138 Alcohol distilleries that produced over 88 million gallons each year.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Non-pharmaceutical fentanyl is sold in the following forms: as a powder; spiked on blotter paper; mixed with or substituted for heroin; or as tablets that mimic other, less potent opioids.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • 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.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.

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