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Drug Facts

  • Drugs and alcohol do not discriminate no matter what your gender, race, age or political affiliation addiction can affect you if you let it.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Over 200,000 people have abused Ketamine within the past year.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Roughly 20 percent of college students meet the criteria for an AUD.29
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.

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