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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • 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.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Millions of dollars per month are spent trafficking illegal drugs.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.

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