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Drug Facts

  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • In 2013, more high school seniors regularly used marijuana than cigarettes as 22.7% smoked pot in the last month, compared to 16.3% who smoked cigarettes.
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • Over 750,000 people have used LSD within the past year.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • 28% of teens know at least 1 person who has tried ecstasy.

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