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Massachusetts Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Illegal drug use is declining while prescription drug abuse is rising thanks to online pharmacies and illegal selling.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Brand names of Bath Salts include Blizzard, Blue Silk, Charge+, Ivory Snow, Ivory Wave, Ocean Burst, Pure Ivory, Purple Wave, Snow Leopard, Stardust, Vanilla Sky, White Dove, White Knight and White Lightning.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • 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.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • 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
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.

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