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Colorado Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • Those who complete prison-based treatment and continue with treatment in the community have the best outcomes.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.

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