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Drug Facts

  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • High dosages of ketamine can lead to the feeling of an out of body experience or even death.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • The U.N. suspects that over 9 million people actively use ecstasy worldwide.
  • 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.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Between 2000 and 2006 the average number of alcohol related motor vehicle crashes in Utah resulting in death was approximately 59, resulting in an average of nearly 67 fatalities per year.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Prescription medication should always be taken under the supervision of a doctor, even then, it must be noted that they can be a risk to the unborn child.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.

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