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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Mixing Adderall with Alcohol increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1

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