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Drug Facts

  • Ritalin is easy to get, and cheap.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.

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