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Drug Facts

  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.

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