majority (68%) of licensed teen drivers who use drugs regularly report that they "drug and drive." Research shows that smoking pot affects concentration, perception, coordination and reaction time, many of the skills required for safe driving . and these effects can last up to 24 hours.
First synthesized from morphine in 1874, heroin was not extensively used in medicine until the early 1900s. Commercial production of the new pain remedy was first started in 1898. It initially received widespread acceptance from the medical profession, and physicians remained unaware of its addiction potential for years. The first comprehensive control of heroin occurred with the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914. Today, heroin is an illicit substance having no medical utility in the United States. It is in Schedule I of the CSA.
Liver cirrhosis is the 9th leading cause of deaths; each year 28,000 lives are lost to this disease.
Cocaine appearing in powder form is a salt, typically cocaine hydrochloride. Street market cocaine is frequently adulterated or .cut. with various powdery fillers to increase its weight; the substances most commonly used in this process are baking soda; sugars, such as lactose, dextrose, inositol, and mannitol; and local anesthetics, such as lidocaine or benzocaine, which mimic or add to cocaine's numbing effect on mucous membranes.
