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Mississippi Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Statistics say that prohibition made Alcohol abuse worse, with more people drinking more than ever.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • 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.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.

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