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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Crack Cocaine is categorized next to PCP and Meth as an illegal Schedule II drug.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • 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.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Oxycodone stays in the system 1-10 days.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Over 500,000 individuals have abused Ambien.

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