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Substance abuse treatment in Connecticut

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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • 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.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.

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