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Louisiana Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Ketamine hydrochloride, or 'K,' is a powerful anesthetic designed for use during operations and medical procedures.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • Over 20 million individuals were abusing Darvocet before any limitations were put on the drug.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Ritalin is easy to get, and cheap.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • In 2009, a Wisconsin man sleepwalked outside and froze to death after taking Ambien.

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