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Massachusetts Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Over 30 Million people have admitted to abusing a cannabis-based product within the last year.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • 1.3% of high school seniors have tired bath salts.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.

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