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Puerto-rico Treatment Centers

in Puerto-rico

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Drug Facts

  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Prescription medication should always be taken under the supervision of a doctor, even then, it must be noted that they can be a risk to the unborn child.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • Interventions can facilitate the development of healthy interpersonal relationships and improve the participant's ability to interact with family, peers, and others in the community.

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