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Drug Facts

  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.

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