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Drug Facts

  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Getting blackout drunk doesn't actually make you forget: the brain temporarily loses the ability to make memories.
  • Half of all Ambien related ER visits involved other drug interaction.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine, which normally comes in a powder form.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Rock, Kryptonite, Base, Sugar Block, Hard Rock, Apple Jacks, and Topo (Spanish) are popular terms used for Crack Cocaine.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.

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