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Drug Facts

  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • 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.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • In 1860, the United States was home to 1,138 Alcohol distilleries that produced over 88 million gallons each year.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • 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.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.

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