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Louisiana Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Aerosols are a form of inhalants that include vegetable oil, hair spray, deodorant and spray paint.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.

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