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Puerto-rico Treatment Centers

in Puerto-rico

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Drug Facts

  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Ketamine is popular at dance clubs and "raves", unfortunately, some people (usually female) are not aware they have been dosed.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • In 2012, over 16 million adults were prescribed Adderall.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • Gangs, whether street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs or even prison gangs, distribute more drugs on the streets of the U.S. than any other person or persons do.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.

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