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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Maine Treatment Centers

in Maine

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Drug Facts

  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • 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.
  • LSD can stay in one's system from a few hours to five days.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Psychic side effects of hallucinogens include the disassociation of time and space.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.

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