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Drug Facts

  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • 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.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Cigarettes can kill you and they are the leading preventable cause of death.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.

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