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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 is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Authority obtains over 10,500 accounts of clonazepam abuse annually.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.

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