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Drug Facts

  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Other names of ecstasy include Eckies, E, XTC, pills, pingers, bikkies, flippers, and molly.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Overdose deaths linked to Benzodiazepines, like Ativan, have seen a 4.3-fold increase from 2002 to 2015.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.

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