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Drug Facts

  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • LSD can stay in one's system from a few hours to five days.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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