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Massachusetts Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • 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.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.

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