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Massachusetts Treatment Centers

in Massachusetts

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Drug Facts

  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that more than 9.5% of youths aged 12 to 17 in the US were current illegal drug users.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.

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