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Drug Facts

  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Crack Cocaine is categorized next to PCP and Meth as an illegal Schedule II drug.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • By 8th grade 15% of kids have used marijuana.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.

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