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Massachusetts Treatment Centers

in Massachusetts

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Drug Facts

  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.

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