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Puerto-rico Treatment Centers

in Puerto-rico

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • 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.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • 31% of rock star deaths are related to drugs or alcohol.

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