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Drug Facts

  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Tens of millions of Americans use prescription medications non-medically every year.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • 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.
  • Nitrous oxide is actually found in whipped cream dispensers as well as octane boosters for cars.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • 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

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