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Drug Facts

  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.
  • Over 750,000 people have used LSD within the past year.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • In the year 2006 a total of 13,693 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs in Arkansas.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.

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