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Massachusetts Treatment Centers

in Massachusetts

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Drug Facts

  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Almost 38 million people have admitted to have used cocaine in their lifetime.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.

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