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Maine Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • 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.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • 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
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • In addition, users may have cracked teeth due to extreme jaw-clenching during a Crystral Meth high.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.

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