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Drug Facts

  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • 26.9 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • From 1920- 1933, the illegal trade of Alcohol was a booming industry in the U.S., causing higher rates of crime than before.

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