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Maine Treatment Centers

in Maine

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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Over 30 Million people have admitted to abusing a cannabis-based product within the last year.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Ambien dissolves readily in water, becoming a popular date rape drug.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Every day, we have over 8,100 NEW drug users in America. That's 3.1 million new users every year.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.

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