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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • 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
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • 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.
  • Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.

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