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Drug Facts

  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Adderall is popular on college campuses, with black markets popping up to supply the demand of students.
  • 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
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.

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