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Health & substance abuse services mix in Puerto rico

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Drug Facts

  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.

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