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Drug Facts

  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Other names of Cocaine include C, coke, nose candy, snow, white lady, toot, Charlie, blow, white dust or stardust.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • In 2009, a Wisconsin man sleepwalked outside and froze to death after taking Ambien.
  • 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
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • 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.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.

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