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Massachusetts Treatment Centers

in Massachusetts

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • 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
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • The U.N. suspects that over 9 million people actively use ecstasy worldwide.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Oxycodone stays in the system 1-10 days.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.

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