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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • 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
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.

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