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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • 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
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • The U.S. poisoned industrial Alcohols made in the country, killing a whopping 10,000 people in the process.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.

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