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Drug Facts

  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • The Barbituric acid compound was made from malonic apple acid and animal urea.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • 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.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • 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.
  • 8.6% of 12th graders have used hallucinogens 4% report on using LSD specifically.

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