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Mississippi Treatment Centers

in Mississippi

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Drug Facts

  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • 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.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Millions of dollars per month are spent trafficking illegal drugs.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.

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