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Maine Treatment Centers

in Maine

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Drug Facts

  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • 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).
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.

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