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Lesbian & gay drug rehab in Illinois

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Drug Facts

  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • 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.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.

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