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Maine Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Between 2000 and 2006 the average number of alcohol related motor vehicle crashes in Utah resulting in death was approximately 59, resulting in an average of nearly 67 fatalities per year.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.

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