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Puerto-rico Treatment Centers

in Puerto-rico

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Drug Facts

  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Oxycodone is sold under many trade names, such as Percodan, Endodan, Roxiprin, Percocet, Endocet, Roxicet and OxyContin.

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