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Drug Facts

  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • 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.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • 28% of teens know at least 1 person who has tried ecstasy.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • 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
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.

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