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Louisiana Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Soon following its introduction, Cocaine became a common household drug.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • 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.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.

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