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Drug Facts

  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • 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
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Mixing Adderall with Alcohol increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.

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