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Drug Facts

  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • 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
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • Almost 38 million people have admitted to have used cocaine in their lifetime.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • 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.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Every day, we have over 8,100 NEW drug users in America. That's 3.1 million new users every year.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
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