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Drug Facts

  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • In 2007 The California Department of Toxic Substance Control was responsible for clandestine meth lab cleanup costs in Butte County totaling $26,876.00.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.

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