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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.

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