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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • In 2007 The California Department of Toxic Substance Control was responsible for clandestine meth lab cleanup costs in Butte County totaling $26,876.00.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • 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
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
  • 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 was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.

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