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Drug Facts

  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.

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