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Massachusetts Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Ambien is a sedative-hypnotic known to cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and death.
  • 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).
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.
  • Codeine taken with alcohol can cause mental clouding, reduced coordination and slow breathing.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • 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.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.

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