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Maine Treatment Centers

in Maine

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Drug Facts

  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Over 13 million individuals abuse stimulants like Dexedrine.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.

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