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Louisiana Treatment Centers

in Louisiana

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Drug Facts

  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Its rock form is far more addictive and potent than its powder form.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.

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