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Maine Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • Penalties for possession, delivery and manufacturing of Ecstasy can include jail sentences of four years to life, and fines from $250,000 to $4 million, depending on the amount of the drug you have in your possession.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • Cocaine comes in two forms. One is a powder and the other is a rock. The rock form of cocaine is referred to as crack cocaine.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.

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