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Mississippi Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • About 1 in 4 college students report academic consequences from drinking, including missing class, falling behind in class, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.30
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.

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