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Maine Treatment Centers

in Maine

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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • Marijuana is actually dangerous, impacting the mind by causing memory loss and reducing ability.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • K2 and Spice are synthetic marijuana compounds, also known as cannabinoids.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Using Crack Cocaine, even once, can result in life altering addiction.
  • Coke Bugs or Snow Bugs are an illusion of bugs crawling underneath one's skin and often experienced by Crack Cocaine users.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar

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