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Drug Facts

  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • 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
  • The U.N. suspects that over 9 million people actively use ecstasy worldwide.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Methamphetamine can cause cardiac damage, elevates heart rate and blood pressure, and can cause a variety of cardiovascular problems, including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Codeine taken with alcohol can cause mental clouding, reduced coordination and slow breathing.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.

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