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Massachusetts Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • 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.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Ambien can cause severe allergic reactions such as hives, breathing problems and swelling of the mouth, tongue and throat.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • Alcohol is the most likely substance for someone to become addicted to in America.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.

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