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Kentucky Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • 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.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Crystal meth is short for crystal methamphetamine.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.

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