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Puerto-rico Treatment Centers

in Puerto-rico

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Drug Facts

  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • 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.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • 1 in every 9 high school seniors has tried synthetic marijuana (also known as 'Spice' or 'K2').
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Family intervention has been found to be upwards of ninety percent successful and professionally conducted interventions have a success rate of near 98 percent.
  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • Cocaine has long been used for its ability to boost energy, relieve fatigue and lessen hunger.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.

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