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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Maine Treatment Centers

in Maine

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Drug Facts

  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Paint thinner and glue can cause birth defects similar to that of alcohol.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • 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.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.

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