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Drug Facts

  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • 5,477 individuals were found guilty of crack cocaine-related crimes. More than 95% of these offenders had been involved in crack cocaine trafficking.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Ativan is one of the strongest Benzodiazepines on the market.
  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.

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