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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Maine Treatment Centers

in Maine

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Drug Facts

  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • 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).
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.

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